SKWC

SKWC

Premises Liability

A $250,000 settlement in October 2008 for a fall into an empty, unguarded fountain basin at a crowded park at night, causing an upper arm fracture that required surgery.

 

A $4.5 million settlement in May 2008 for a spinal cord injury that resulted in the client being a tetraplegic.  Client dove into Lake Chelan in a city park and hit his head on submerged rocks. No warnings of the danger were posted.

 

A $ 1.033 million jury verdict, plus a $225,000 settlement for a total recovery of $1.258 million in January 2008 for injuries suffered when a structure collapsed causing a severe right foot fracture requiring fusion and fixation surgery with hardware.

 

A $1.1 million settlement in June 2007 involving a pipe fitter who suffered permanent injuries from a fall caused by hitting an overhead obstruction while climbing a scaffold access ladder.

 

A $3.2 million settlement in June 2006 for a child who suffered a brain injury in a fall from an apartment window.

 

A $1.135 million settlement in September 2005 for a mentally ill woman who slipped and fell at a care facility, resulting in a fractured leg and ultimately amputation below the knee.

 

A $1.575 million settlement in September 2004 for a child who suffered a brain injury in a fall from an apartment window.

 

A $400,000 settlement in 1999 for a fall in a sinkhole in a parking lot causing a fractured knee.

 

A $1.85 million settlement in 1997 for the deaths of two workers who went down a manhole and were asphyxiated due to lack of air monitoring.

 

A $400,000 settlement in 1997 for a fractured hip of a man who fell into the city transfer station due to lack of fall protection.

 

A jury verdict for 22 representative plaintiffs that equated to $7.4 million for all 241 plaintiffs in Grays Harbor County Superior Court, 1993.  Toxic tort claim for neighborhood exposure to sulfur gases from pulp mill wastewater treatment ponds.

 

A $500,000 settlement in 1983 for slip and fall in a public park.

Structural damage from the Petersen case. SKWC's client obtained a total recovery of $1.258 million.